The winner for the Light Writing contest is… Hugo Lomas Fernandez, a.k.a. SFHIR for this excellent light writing that also included a camera rotation! SFHIR said this about his winning image!

Whooooow great news! Thank you very much, Im very happy to win at my first picture in a contest. The picture was created at Madrid Rio park and is very simple, it was created in two steps first one is a graffiti bomb calligraphy with a warm lantern dedicated to my good friend frodo DKL. I use this lantern to scan people for portrais but is also a good tool for calligraphy and it was built by edu Cajigal special for me. The second step is a camera rotation with the Matadero background that is an artistic building iluminated in red.

Here are a few shots of the tool SFHIR used to create the image:

For this winning Hugo will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

The winner for the Spiral Light Painting Photography contest for March is Antonio Martinez for this awesome spiral light painting! Antonio shared this about his winning creation!

The title of this image is “Warm Spiral on Cold.”

This photograph was made in a cave cellar that gives a lot of play for light painting with those arches! It is in the town of Jumilla, in the southeast of Spain. That night I had the company de Melisa Lefebvre, who was visiting Spain and we got together to go out and create some light paintings that we are both very passionate about creating!

To create this image I combined a spiral inspired by Jason Rinehart, in warm color with a small orange tube. Then I illuminated a warm orange light using a cardboard to cover the source of light and illuminated the cave in all directions, to create a glow around the spiral. Finally I ended in a colder blue color, I used the method of lighting that I called “A Roales”, playing with a kind of strip curtain around the light and covering parts of it. While covering parts of the light only some parts of the walls are illuminated and it also creates some traces of light in the air that accompanies the main effect well, and that also filled in a little more of the empty spaces.

The settings that I used were:

144 second exposure – f / 8 – ISO 800 – 14mm manual – 4200K

Thank you very much everyone for the votes, and the judges for finally choosing my photograph!

For this winning Antonio will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

The winner for the Light Painting photography contest from December 2018 is… Jannis Sid for this simple and elegant Light Painting image he created while walking around one of his favorite locations in the center of Helsinki. This is what Jannis said about the winning image,

“Was out that October night at Baana one of my favorite spots in the center of Helsinki, shooting some ideas I had to get some content for the new website for ( https://lightpaintbox.fi/ ) It was actually my first time shooting after a very busy period with work where I had no time or mood to shoot, so it was great. This place is like a long open tunnel , going through the city. I set up the tripod as low as possible and gave it a nice perspective point of view. I was trying this kind of flower like swirls in different places and thought to give it a try. Turned out not bad .. 🙂 I was using my Olympus EM5 Markii on live composite mode because of the ambient light. The setting I used were F4 at 1,3 sec and it took me about half a minute.”

For this winning Jannis will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible! If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.

The winner for the Light Painting Photography contest for November 2018 is… Kim Von Coels for the above ghostly image created in her mothers garden with a little help from her friend Sophie!

Kim said this about her winning image:

This photo was created in my mothers back garden, with my friend Sophie Alexi, after several glasses of Port.

To create this image we used an old mosquito net, one torch (LED lenser P7.2) and a blue gel/filter.

First I got Sophie to stand with the mosquito net over her and i lit her and the net with the blue gel over my torch. I then removed the gel and flashed the torch toward the camera several times in a circle around her to create the stars. I then removed the net and asked her to crouch in the same place as she was standing and lit her briefly again. There is a bit of ambient light in the garden from the house lights and the sky is picking up the street lights from a nearby village.

It is an 89 second exposure at F10 and 200 ISO shot using my Nikon D610.

And as always this light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

And the winner for the Flower Light Painting Photography Contest is…. Stephane Babatasi and Mass Light for their collaborative creation above! This awesome light painted flower was created during a LFLP Meet-up in Provence. Mass created the Calligraphy after Stephane made the dialed camera rotation of the quarry entrance and illuminated the ground.

And as always this light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

The winner for the light painting Light Blading contest is Francisco J. Lojo Pasín for the smooth spinning image above!

Fran said this about the winning image!

“I created this image using homemade plexiglass combined with one of my favorite lightpainting techniques, the camera rotation, but in a weird way this time. I put the camera spinning over a turntable!”

I used two flashlights with different power, the one with less power was attached to the homemade rectangle plexiglass and the other to a little acrylic bubble tube, both of them in strobe mode!

The process of taking the pic was easy. I held the two flashlights with a hand and while the camara is spinning I shot with a remote trigger and move the lightblades up moving my wrist to finally point the flashlights to the white roof and cut the exposure.

I tried with many different colors, motions, positions… but finally I decided not use colors and played only with the white balance of the camera. for this shot it was the ‘incandescente’ mode combined with white background ( the roof ) and different power of the cold flashlights, made a great blue tones image, it’s a stunning spiral effect! I’m very proud of the results!

As a special addition to this contest prize package Patrick Rochon donated his entire new KYO LITEBLADE SYSTEM! The kit will include, a Klarus XT11S (1100 Lumens), 7 round bottom Liteblades, 1 KYO attachement, one remote pressure switch and a colour sample pack!

And as always this light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

And the winner for the Fiber Optic Light Painting Contest is Kim Von Coels for the awesome image above!

Kim said” I created this image with the help of my friend Domenic and the lovely Maddy in an experimental session in my spare room.

Ever since seeing Tim Gambles images where he used a transluscent chair matt as a diffuser I have been searching for something interesting I could use to shoot through, eventually finding a roll of textured anti slip plastic in the attic that I had bought years ago to make home made tubes with. I taped the plastic to a rigid frame and asked my model to stand behind it, very close with only her hands lightly touching the plastic. I then breifly lit her face with a torch from above before using a red laser pen to colour her from the sides and then a home made black fibre optic tool fashioned from a kids lamp and a blue gel to surround her with the smokey effect, brushing around her body and onto the plastic with the ends.”

The settings for the winning image were: f8, ISO 200, and a 49 Second Exposure

And the winner for the Eric Paré and Kim Henry style TUBE Light Painting Contest is Brian Rodriguez for this simply beautiful image that he created in the Valley of Fire just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada! Here is how Brian created his winning light painting!

“So for this shoot, the model and I drove 1 hour outside of Las Vegas to Valley of Fire. It was our first time working together and I had plenty of time during the drive to let her know what we wete going for. Despite getting there after sunset (women and their makeup/hairdos) and exploring in the dark while having bats fly in and out of our nearby view, we found a promising spot that combined the moon. Our first angle was not the one you see in the picture, it was more from a sideways view. The exposure didn’t take many tries to achieve correctly, the challenge was the fact that we were on an incline (at this time we also had clear skies).

I kept coming out accidentally in some pictures, or my model kept losing balance one way or another due to the slope of the hill. Not only that, but I had to squat down behind her as I raised my arm high enough due the light circle which, I learned, is quite challenging and uncomfortable also due to the slope. As the night progressed, we changed angles to the one you see from my entry.

The funny thing about our winning shot was that it was very improvised. We saw a storm approaching, with lightning visible a few miles away and I told my model “lets get a handful of good shots in before this storm kicks us out” (mind you, a storm in Valley of Fire can easily cause a mud slide). Clouds started soaring in. Because our backs were towards the sky, the moon and the clouds, we did not know we had such explosive clouds above us as we took this picture. After we took the shots, we picked everything up and rushed to my car before we could get stranded by the storm. I proceeded to speed out. It wasn’t until 1 hour later where I reviewed the pictures and saw this shot was gold!”

“One really warm night, in the middle of a heat wave we had some weeks ago in Spain, I decided to go to the rooftop of the building where I live to light paint something.

The rooftop is a cool place because I am alone, nobody disturbs me and I can do whatever I want without problems. I love painting with people but this time, I worked alone. After thinking for a bit what I could light paint, I decided to draw some cats. Why cats? Because, in my opinion, they can be well combined with the background of the city where all the lights are shinning and, also, they are easy to draw. I’m not very good at freehand drawing and this is why I decided to draw simple animals, sitting down, walking, etc…

I began to practice how draw them in different positions. I thought about using different colour for each cat too. After practicing for a bit I took some test shots to calculate the proper exposure time. When it was calculated, I pressed the remote shutter to start the shot. The total exposure time for the final image was 6 minutes. After 3 attempts I had the picture I wanted. The shot finished and all cats were where I wanted them to be, the light was good enough and it was not too overexposed.

I smiled a lot when I looked at the camera display. I enjoyed drawing them, for me it’s all about having fun when I light paint. The cats also fit very well with the rest of the picture and I loved it at first sight.

The tool I used to draw them is the freehand rgb pen from Herramientas Light Painting. It is a really useful tool which allows you to quickly change between colours. It is not too big so you can use it very easily.

And the winner for the April 2017 Light Painting Photography Contest themed “Refractograph” is… Tim Gamble for the above titled image “Primordial” Tim shared with us how he created the winning image and he also provided a awesome video tutorial below, Enjoy!

Here is how Tim Created his winning image: “David Hull and Rob Turney inspired, kitchen based, deep space exploration light art. I fashioned a new cardboard diorama with a smaller planet which I was keen to pair with some lenslessness.”

“This being a pinpricked A3 piece of black card with a hole cut in the middle. Then a slightly larger disc of black card stuck over the hole to allow the light to leak through.”

“Next my Led Lenser covered in tinfoil with a tiny pin hole pointing at a glass, about 2 meters away sat on a lightstand. No lens on my camera and positioned a wine glass bottom in front of the camera until happy with the pattern shown in live view. Two seconds of exposure and placed the 50mm manual Samyang on the camera and swapped tripods for the planet part for which I had already focused and set aperture.”

“I took the lens cap off and I lit the card from behind with the Light Painting Brushes colour filters and hoods. One torch with orange for the planet rim and the other two with a purple and blue for the stars.”

Here is a tutorial video I created describing and going through the process.

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About LPP Founder Jason D. Page

My name is Jason D. Page and I am a light painter. LightPaintingPhotography.com was born out of my passion and obsession with light painting photography. I have been a photographer since the late 1990’s and even before that I have had images in my brain that I wanted to … [Read More...]

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